William Blake: Patron Saint of Makers
The mad Englishman was on a mission that makers can relate to.
Photograph courtesy of Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Copy I, 1827), an early example of Blake’s invented technique of illuminated printing and something of a proto-zine, with different writing styles, voices, postures, rants, and aphorisms.
For the past 25 years, nearly every day, I’ve interacted with “the mad English poet” William Blake in some fashion. I poke my nose into one of the dozens of books I’ve lovingly collected, or I whisper (or shout to the rafters) a poem, or I chew on some gristly ...
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